UK presses for MDGs by 2015
Sunday, 14 March 2010
LONDON, March 13 (bdnews24.com): The UK will press world leaders to agree to an ambitious action plan to get the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) back on track for 2015.
The plan is to target six countries — including Bangladesh — that are home to half of all undernourished children in the world.
International development secretary Douglas Alexander launched the new strategy at a conference here Friday.
The meeting took place ahead of the publication of an international assessment of what is needed to achieve the MDGs of the UNDP. The report is expected to lay out in stark terms the areas where progress has been weak and set out concrete action to achieve the goals by 2015.
The conference organised by the Department for International Development is aimed at tackling the most off-track MDGs — agreed in 2000 — including hunger and nutrition, maternal and child mortality and education. It is estimated that up to two-thirds of countries could fail to meet these crucial targets.
Alexander used the gathering of development experts to put forward a number of bold proposals that would be incorporated into the international negotiations ahead of a key UN summit in September.
“There has been some real progress towards the Millennium Development Goals but we must accelerate progress if we are to realise them by 2015,” Alexander told the conference.
The plan is to target six countries — including Bangladesh — that are home to half of all undernourished children in the world.
International development secretary Douglas Alexander launched the new strategy at a conference here Friday.
The meeting took place ahead of the publication of an international assessment of what is needed to achieve the MDGs of the UNDP. The report is expected to lay out in stark terms the areas where progress has been weak and set out concrete action to achieve the goals by 2015.
The conference organised by the Department for International Development is aimed at tackling the most off-track MDGs — agreed in 2000 — including hunger and nutrition, maternal and child mortality and education. It is estimated that up to two-thirds of countries could fail to meet these crucial targets.
Alexander used the gathering of development experts to put forward a number of bold proposals that would be incorporated into the international negotiations ahead of a key UN summit in September.
“There has been some real progress towards the Millennium Development Goals but we must accelerate progress if we are to realise them by 2015,” Alexander told the conference.